Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Xiao Dong uses the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to erase the Azure Flame Demon Eagle’s lingering soul and refine its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring into pure origin energy.
• He feeds that energy into the seventy-thousand-year Soul Ring he gained from the Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox. The demon flame suppresses the rings’ conflicting attributes, allowing the fusion to succeed.
• The Third Soul Ring transforms into a genuine hundred-thousand-year red ring, and its ability evolves into Mental Control: Xiao Dong can use spiritual power to manipulate the thoughts, nerves, and movements of anyone with weaker mental cultivation.
• Convinced he can repeat this process, Xiao Dong decides to seek a Fourth Soul Ring and advance to the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor realm, which would unlock the next level of the Xiao Yan Inheritance in his mind.
• Using Super Vision and Spiritual Detection, he locates a fifty-thousand-year Netherworld Demon-Eyed Lizard in a nearby ravine. He plans to strengthen its ring with more Soul Beast origins.
• Before leaving, he demonstrates Mental Control by levitating several enormous Soul Beast corpses—including those of the Azure Flame Demon Eagle, Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox, and Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King—for later use.

Character development and interactions

• Xiao Dong’s confidence and ambition soar after his experiment succeeds. He sees the demon flame as a way to overcome the scarcity of hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings and considers pushing his other rings to the same level.
• He becomes increasingly ruthless and opportunistic, viewing Soul Beasts as resources for upgrading rings and refining pills.
• His new Mental Control skill also reveals a disturbing willingness to use his power to dominate others, including women.
• The main interaction is between Xiao Dong and the two Soul Rings: the demon flame forcibly overcomes their resistance and reconciles their incompatible attributes. He also exerts his new spiritual power over the corpses, treating them as objects to collect and exploit.

Significant themes

• Power through transformation: Refining and combining Soul Ring origins lets Xiao Dong surpass natural limits.
• Control and domination: His new skill—and his reaction to it—emphasize the danger of power used to override others’ will.
• Ambition and exploitation: Xiao Dong’s plans expand quickly, while Soul Beasts become fuel and materials in his pursuit of strength.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Dong uses high-grade bird bones to develop Three Thousand Lightning Movement, a lightning-fast technique that lets him maneuver more sharply than Homelander’s straight-line speed.
• He surprises a fifty-thousand-year Netherworld Demon-Eyed Lizard and dodges its deadly mental beam. Using Eight Extremes Collapse, he destroys its skull and kills it with one strike.
• He cleanses and swallows the lizard’s black Soul Ring. Its energy breaks his level-forty bottleneck and raises him to level forty-seven, making him a high-level Soul Ancestor.
• The breakthrough shatters the fifth golden seal on the Xiao Yan Inheritance, unlocking Dou Ling-level knowledge, including Tier 4 Alchemy and powerful medicinal pills.
• Eager to keep strengthening his Soul Rings, Xiao Dong heads after a twenty-thousand-year Dark Night Demon Tiger, judging it suitable to complete the evolution of his Second Soul Ring. He arrives above its gorge and attacks with Homelander’s Heat Vision.

Character development

• Xiao Dong grows even more ambitious after confirming that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame can refine Soul Ring energy. Rather than resting after his enormous breakthrough, he immediately seeks another beast to hunt.
• His confidence and mastery increase: he combines his new movement technique with powerful Dou Techniques and his existing abilities to dispatch formidable opponents quickly.

Character interactions

• Xiao Dong confronts both beasts as a dominant hunter. The lizard attacks with its mental beam but is outmaneuvered and killed; the tiger awakens in alarm and fury, only to face Xiao Dong’s Heat Vision.
• Xiao Dong also imagines using crafted flying treasures to win the loyalty and admiration of Zhou Yi, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng.

Significant themes

• Power through relentless advancement: Each victory leads Xiao Dong to pursue still greater strength.
• Combining abilities and knowledge: He blends techniques and powers from different sources to overcome enemies efficiently.
• Ambition and exploitation of opportunity: Xiao Dong treats each Soul Beast encounter as a chance to improve his level and Soul Rings.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Dong uses purified energy from a twenty-thousand-year Dark Night Demon Tiger Soul Ring to raise his eighty-thousand-year Second Soul Ring to one hundred thousand years.
• He then hunts a fifty-thousand-year Red-Armored Flame Crystal Turtle and feeds its purified energy into his Fourth Soul Ring, also raising it to one hundred thousand years.
• The two upgrades unleash enough power to propel Xiao Dong from level forty-seven through levels forty-eight and forty-nine to level fifty, making him a Quasi-Soul King.
• His four rings are now the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm ring and three hundred-thousand-year rings: those of the Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King, Seven-Tailed Illusion Crystal Fox, and Netherworld Demon-Eyed Lizard.
• At level fifty, Xiao Dong expects the sixth seal of his Xiao Yan inheritance to unlock when he enters the Soul King realm. It contains advanced alchemy knowledge, including Sixth-Grade techniques. He decides to seek a Fifth Soul Ring and claim the inheritance that same day.

Character development

• Xiao Dong’s confidence and ambition intensify as his strength grows. He has become capable of defeating powerful Soul Beasts with overwhelming force and of refining and upgrading Soul Rings with practiced control.
• He sees his new power not only as a personal achievement but as leverage: Sixth-Grade pills could win the loyalty of even the most powerful, long-lived experts.

Significant themes

• Relentless power progression: Soul Rings can be transformed beyond their original limits, while breakthroughs follow in rapid succession.
• Control over dangerous forces: Xiao Dong purifies violent Soul Ring energy and redirects it to strengthen himself.
• Ambition and power as influence: His anticipated alchemy skills could let him command allegiance through rare, life-changing treasures.

Character interactions

• No human characters appear. Xiao Dong’s encounters with the tiger and turtle are brief, one-sided hunts; he kills both and uses their Soul Rings to advance his own power.

After killing a thirty-thousand-year-old Thousand-Pattern Spirit Booklouse and absorbing its Soul Ring, Xiao Dong reached level fifty-three and awakened Xiao Yan’s Dou Wang-level inheritance. He gained two powerful Dou Techniques and extracted two beast flames, but wondered why the inheritance still had not revealed the Flame Mantra.

• Xiao Dong found and killed a thirty-thousand-year-old Thousand-Pattern Spirit Booklouse, purified its Soul Ring, and absorbed it as his fifth Soul Ring.
• The Soul Ring broke Xiao Dong through the level-fifty barrier, raising him to level fifty-three and awakening the Dou Wang-level Xiao Yan Inheritance.
• Xiao Dong received the High Earth-tier Dou Techniques Mountain Splitting Seal and Five-Wheel Separation Flame Art.
• Xiao Dong extracted and tamed the Azure Flame Demon Eagle’s azure flame demon fire and the Red-Armored Flame Crystal Turtle’s earth crystal crimson flame, giving him three of the five flames required for the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Art.
• Xiao Dong questioned why the inheritance still had not provided the Flame Mantra, the cultivation method he considered its essential foundation.

Xiao Dong awakened a sixth-grade alchemy technique and returned toward the city with the corpses of several powerful soul beasts. Outside the gates, he encountered Xiao Xiao, whose fear of the beast remains made her summon her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.

• Xiao Dong awakened a sixth-grade alchemy technique and gained extensive pill recipes and alchemy methods.
• Xiao Dong carried the remains of four powerful soul beasts through the forest and stopped in a secluded area outside the city.
• Xiao Dong searched for Zhou Yi and Ning Tian with his spiritual perception and spotted Xiao Xiao on the road.
• Xiao Xiao hurried toward the city, worrying that Zhou Yi would be assigned as her teacher.
• Xiao Xiao saw Xiao Dong and the beast remains, panicked, and summoned her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to defend herself.

Xiao Dong used the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to make Xiao Xiao completely obedient and sent her to summon Ning Tian with the medicinal herbs. Ning Tian and Wu Feng recognized Xiao Dong’s message and prepared to hurry out to meet him.

• Xiao Dong purified Xiao Xiao’s resistance with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, making her obedient to him.
• Xiao Dong ordered Xiao Xiao to tell Ning Tian to bring the herbs to the wilderness outside the city without delay.
• Xiao Xiao raced to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect residence, where Ning Tian and Wu Feng had gathered the rare herbs.
• Xiao Xiao delivered Xiao Dong’s warning, startling Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Wu Feng urged Ning Tian to deliver the herbs quickly before Xiao Dong became angry.

Xiao Xiao led Ning Tian and Wu Feng to Xiao Dong, where they discovered he had swiftly slain several powerful soul beasts and brought back their carcasses. After Ning Tian delivered the gathered medicinal herbs, Xiao Xiao asked what Xiao Dong planned to do with the ingredients and beasts.

• Xiao Xiao led Ning Tian and Wu Feng toward the barren mountain while Ning Tian warned Wu Feng not to offend Xiao Dong.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng saw a pile of slain soul beasts, including an eighty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Purple Spirit Lynx King, and were overwhelmed by Xiao Dong's power.
• Ning Tian respectfully offered Xiao Dong the white jade ring containing the medicinal herbs the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had gathered.
• Xiao Dong inspected the herbs and said they barely passed muster, while Wu Feng swallowed her objections.
• Xiao Xiao asked Xiao Dong what he needed the medicinal ingredients and soul beast carcasses for.

Xiao Dong announced that he could refine pills and bet Wu Feng that she would wear his revealing outfit if he succeeded. He began refining Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, astonishing the women as he purified and combined the ingredients.

• Xiao Dong told Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao that he would practice alchemy, and Wu Feng challenged his claim.
• Xiao Dong bet that Wu Feng would wear a revealing outfit if he refined a divine pill, while Wu Feng wagered that he would serve her if he failed.
• Xiao Dong chose to refine Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and used his mental control to suspend the ingredients in the air.
• Xiao Dong summoned the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and rapidly purified the Purple Leaf Orchid Grass, Bone-Washing Flower, and soul beast blood.
• Xiao Dong used his mental power to combine the purified medicinal liquids as the three women watched in amazement.

Xiao Dong completed a purified batch of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and explained its extraordinary benefits to Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng. After promising Xiao Xiao a share, he estimated it could raise their soul power by three to six ranks, leaving the three young women eager to use it.

• Xiao Dong refined the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, whose purified medicinal effects approached those of an ordinary Third-Rank Pill.
• Xiao Dong teased Wu Feng about doubting his claims, and she argued that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had supplied most of the rare ingredients.
• Xiao Dong called Xiao Xiao to him, kissed her, and promised her a portion of the spirit liquid.
• Xiao Xiao asked about the liquid’s effects, and Xiao Dong said it could raise a Soul Grandmaster’s soul power by three to six ranks while cleansing and strengthening the body.

Xiao Dong offered the girls Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid that could greatly increase their Soul Power, and Ning Tian kissed him to secure her share. Wu Feng reluctantly agreed to let him take her measurements in exchange for the liquid, leaving Xiao Dong poised to act.

• Wu Feng doubted Xiao Dong’s claim that the Spirit Liquid could raise Soul Power by at least three levels, but the girls were tempted by its promise.
• Ning Tian kissed Xiao Dong, and he embraced her before promising her an especially generous portion of the liquid.
• Wu Feng angrily condemned Xiao Dong, who offered her a share if she let him take her measurements instead of kissing him.
• After weighing the offer against the liquid and her earlier wager with Xiao Dong, Wu Feng reluctantly consented and braced herself.

Xiao Dong began refining a fifth-grade Blood-Tempering Body Pill from high-tier Soul Beast remains and medicinal herbs. After purifying the beasts’ blood vitality and marrow in his Fire Cauldron, he started blending them with the herbs as Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng watched.

• Xiao Dong teased Wu Feng with an intrusive touch, then turned his attention to the Soul Beast carcasses in the valley.
• Xiao Dong devised a new fifth-grade Blood-Tempering Body Pill using high-tier Soul Beast blood vitality and marrow, along with medicinal herbs gathered by the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xiao Dong summoned the carcasses into the air, astonishing Ning Tian and Wu Feng, while Xiao Xiao encouraged him.
• Xiao Dong drew the herbs and Soul Beast remains into his Fire Cauldron and used the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to remove the beasts’ baleful energy and extract their blood vitality and marrow essence.
• Xiao Dong began combining the purified blood vitality with the medicinal essences, while the three girls watched the alchemy closely.

Xiao Dong completed thirteen Blood-Tempering Body Pills and explained that only someone with a Titled Douluo-level physique could survive taking one. He left for Shrek City with Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao, while a mysterious woman appeared over the valley shortly after they departed.

• Xiao Dong condensed thirteen Blood-Tempering Body Pills and collected the Azure Flame Demon Eagle's Bone Wings and the remaining medicinal ingredients.
• Wu Feng asked about the pills, and Xiao Dong explained that they could greatly strengthen the body by cleansing the marrow and tempering the bones.
• Xiao Dong warned Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao that anyone below a Titled Douluo-level physical foundation would die from the pill's medicinal power.
• Xiao Dong headed toward Shrek City, and Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao hurried after him.
• A tall woman in dark-green leather armor emerged from the void and hovered over the valley.

Xian Lin'er discovered traces of a legendary Divine-Grade Pill and rushed toward Shrek City, hoping to find its mysterious alchemist and break through her bottleneck. In the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect residence, Xiao Dong told Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao to absorb the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid in a bath, and they reluctantly agreed.

• Xian Lin'er found a scorched valley and sensed that a Divine-Grade Pill had recently been refined there.
• Xian Lin'er felt the lingering pill essence loosen her soul power bottleneck and hurried toward Shrek City to find the alchemist.
• Xiao Dong warned Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao that the fierce Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid had to be diluted in warm bathwater rather than swallowed.
• Xiao Dong said the three girls had to bathe without clothes and circulate their soul power to absorb the medicine, prompting Wu Feng and Ning Tian to protest in embarrassment.
• Ning Tian persuaded Wu Feng to accept the treatment, and the three girls prepared to use the Spirit Liquid in a steaming white-jade bath.

Xiao Dong prepared an emerald medicinal bath for Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Xiao Xiao, then secretly used X-Ray Vision to watch them bathe. As the girls soaked, he turned to refining a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill to help him break through from the fifty-third rank toward rank sixty and unlock more of the Xiao Yan Inheritance.

• Xiao Dong added a drop of spirit liquid to the pool, transforming its water into a life-rich medicinal bath, and left the girls alone inside.
• Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Xiao Xiao overcame their embarrassment and undressed to enter the pool.
• Xiao Dong activated X-Ray Vision outside the bathroom to secretly observe the three girls bathing, then withdrew his gaze.
• Xiao Dong considered his cultivation at the fifty-third-rank Soul King tier and sought to cross the seven-rank gap to rank sixty.
• Xiao Dong prepared to rely on Pill Dao and recalled the formula for a peak Tier 4 Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, which required three distinct Heavenly Flames or Beast Flames.

Xiao Dong completed the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and swallowed it to break through the level-sixty Soul Emperor barrier. Meanwhile, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao absorbed Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, and Ning Tian began breaking through her bottleneck.

• Xiao Dong used the Azure Flame Demon Fire, Earth Crystal Crimson Flame, and Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to brand three patterns onto the pill and complete the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill.
• Xiao Dong swallowed the pill and refined its powerful medicinal energy with his steel body and Purifying Lotus Demon Flame as he began cultivating to break through level sixty.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao absorbed the spirit liquid in the bathing chamber, drawing its medicinal power into their bodies.
• Ning Tian broke through the bottleneck that had held her at level twenty-nine.

Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao absorbed the Jadeite Spirit Liquid in the bath and gained dramatic Soul Power breakthroughs. After the medicinal power ran out, Ning Tian prepared to thank Xiao Dong and seek a third Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Ning Tian broke through to level 30, while Xiao Xiao reached level 22 and Wu Feng reached level 25.
• The three girls continued absorbing the medicinal power, pushing Ning Tian's foundation to level 32, Wu Feng to level 29, and Xiao Xiao to level 27.
• When the pool water cleared, Xiao Xiao praised Xiao Dong, while Wu Feng teased him about possibly peeping at them.
• Ning Tian urged the others to dress and accompany her to thank Xiao Dong, then resolved to hunt for her third Thousand-Year Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xiao Dong absorbed the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and reached the peak of level sixty, while Xian Lin'er arrived at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect residence seeking the alchemist behind the pill. The chapter ended as Xiao Dong came out to meet her.

• Xiao Dong absorbed the pill’s medicinal power, broke through to the peak of level sixty, and anticipated unlocking the seventh seal of the Xiao Yan Inheritance after reaching Soul Emperor.
• Xiao Dong sensed a level ninety-four Titled Douluo at the residence and recognized that Xian Lin'er had followed the pill’s fragrance.
• Xian Lin'er entered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect residence and asked Ning Tian who had created the divine medicine.
• Xian Lin'er offered to meet any payment terms if the alchemist would help her break through her level ninety-four bottleneck.
• Ning Tian told Xian Lin'er that the alchemist was someone outside the sect, and Xiao Dong stepped out of the side hall.

Xiao Dong revealed that he had refined the Divine Pills, then demanded that Xian Lin'er become his maid in exchange for one. When Xian Lin'er attacked him, he stopped her strike and forced the rank-ninety-four Titled Douluo to her knees.

• Xiao Dong claimed he had refined the Divine Pills, and Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng confirmed it to Xian Lin'er.
• Xian Lin'er asked Xiao Dong to show her a pill and offered a Soul Bone or Soul Tool in exchange for one.
• Xiao Dong demanded that Xian Lin'er become his personal maid and wear black stockings, provoking her fury.
• Xian Lin'er released her nine Soul Rings and attacked Xiao Dong with a palm strike.
• Xiao Dong stopped Xian Lin'er's attack with his bare hand, seized her wrist, and slammed her to the ground on her knees.

Xiao Dong subdued Xian Lin'er, a level-ninety-four Titled Douluo, with his physical strength and used his purifying lotus demon flame to break her resistance. The chapter ended with Xian Lin'er submitting to him and hurrying off to change before serving him.

• Xiao Dong pinned Xian Lin'er down with one hand, leaving her unable to move despite her cultivation.
• Xiao Xiao cheered Xiao Dong, while Wu Feng and Ning Tian watched in shock at his strength.
• Xian Lin'er refused to become Xiao Dong's maid, so he placed a wisp of purifying lotus demon flame on her forehead.
• The demon flame overwhelmed Xian Lin'er's resistance and transformed her defiance into submission.
• Xian Lin'er called Xiao Dong her Master and obeyed his order to change clothes and return to serve him.

Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao thanked Xiao Dong for the Spirit Liquid, and he ordered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to make revealing garments while giving them more Spirit Liquid. Xian Lin'er emerged dressed as his maid, and Xiao Dong told her to sit on his lap and attend to him.

• Ning Tian thanked Xiao Dong for the Spirit Liquid that had improved her, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao’s cultivation.
• Xiao Dong ordered Ning Tian to have the sect’s tailors mass-produce skimpy undergarments, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Wu Feng boasted about their cultivation levels, but Xiao Dong gave the girls more Spirit Liquid and sent them to the medicinal pool.
• Xian Lin'er left the side room dressed in a maid outfit and addressed Xiao Dong as her master.
• Xiao Dong admired Xian Lin'er’s appearance and told her to sit on his lap and attend to him.